Chapter 94: The Inkman in the Army

Qin Feng's side can't attack Yang'an immediately, even if he wants to attack, he can't use all his strength, he has to let Yang'an City send a messenger to report the news, and Li Tong can only lead the army back to Yang'an City after receiving the distress letter.

The next day, just after midnight, Qin Feng threw 5,000 soldiers and horses to Yichun, Yichun County Commander and the county soldiers found that there were too many soldiers and horses outside the city, and it was Qin Feng who personally led the troops to kill, and he was scared on the spot, withdrew the flag, and simply opened the city gate and surrendered.

In these years, the officials in the land of Runan have long been accustomed to doing this kind of thing, and they have no guilt at all, and whoever is powerful will surrender to whomever they want.

Qin Feng's soldiers took Yichun without bloodshed, and in the afternoon of the same day, they ordered to build siege equipment, and ordered hundreds of county soldiers in Yichun to be transferred.

Seeing that Qin Feng had actually transferred hundreds of soldiers from Yichun who had just occupied, Jun Song couldn't help asking, "Didn't the general want to transfer them over to attack the city?" ”

"Can't you?" Qin Feng asked rhetorically.

Juniper hurriedly said: "No, the subordinates don't mean this, these county soldiers are all waste, it's okay to let them bully the people, but let them attack the city, that's really embarrassing for them!" ”

Qin Feng smiled: "I'm about to embarrass them!" ”

After Yichun's three hundred county soldiers were transferred, they learned that Qin Feng was going to let them attack Yang'an City, and they were all like mourners.

However, the military order fell like a mountain, even if these county soldiers were unwilling, on the morning of the next day, they still had to risk their lives to carry the siege ladder to Yang'an City.

In order to confuse and disperse the defensive forces of the defenders, during the siege of the city, Qin Feng scattered his soldiers and horses at the four gates outside the city, so that the defenders did not know where Qin Feng's real attack point was, and could only disperse all the guarding forces evenly at the four city gates.

In the morning, Qin Feng ordered the formation of a supervision team, and ordered the supervision team to follow behind these county soldiers, and if anyone retreated without authorization, they would be killed immediately!

This is going to be fatal, those county soldiers are afraid of death because of greed for life, they have been grinding foreign workers for a while, and they can't help but work hard, after the establishment of the supervision team, they can't help but work hard, they can only carry siege equipment and desperately rush to the city wall, and quickly climb up after putting the ladder on the city wall.

But the soldiers who defended Cheng did not eat dry food, the boiling water kept pouring down, the stones kept smashing down, and the bows and arrows kept shooting as if they didn't need money.

A large number of screams and shouts of killing were heard from up and down the city walls, one after another.

Attacking the city until noon, Qin Feng ordered Mingjin, but the sound of Mingjin sounded, and the county soldiers retreated one after another, running faster than rabbits.

"General, there were 192 casualties, of which 142 were killed and the rest were wounded!"

In one morning, 300 county soldiers were disabled, and the remaining more than 100 people could not play much role.

Qin Feng didn't care about the number of casualties, this has not officially started yet, the casualties are so big, if the battle is officially started, the number of casualties will only be beyond imagination, the most important thing is that the siege equipment is insufficient, only the siege ladder is too small a threat to the defenders.

Qin Feng found the captain of the engineering battalion, this person is in his forties, he is a member of the Mo family, and the ink people who have survived to the end of the Han Dynasty can be said to be rare, and other craftsmen cannot be called ink masters, they are just craftsmen with a little craftsmanship.

"Xi Ji meets the general!"

Qin Feng nodded, this Xi Ji was taken refuge in after the recruitment order was issued, he personally inspected it, this person not only knows martial arts, but is quite proficient in the art of construction, and the work of carpentry and mason is pediatric for him, and he is a rare talent.

"Captain Xi, now our army only has siege ladders, the siege methods are too single, the threat to the defenders is not great, our army has suffered heavy casualties, I don't know what siege weapons the engineering battalion has?" Qin Feng asked.

Xi Ji replied: "General, there are battering rams, well fences, and stone carts in the camp that are still being built, and they will come in handy tomorrow!" The first two things are easy to say, they are auxiliary siege equipment, but the stone cart is a direct siege weapon, and a large number of stonemasons need to be found to make stone bullets! ”

Qin Feng said, "Where can I find many stonemasons in a short period of time? Can I replace it with another item? ”

"This ······ Only the stone is the heaviest and easiest to find, and the lethality and deterrence cannot be replaced by other objects! Xi Ji said truthfully.

Qin Feng said with a smile: "Actually, if you replace it with a clay pot, fill it with fire oil, connect the inside and outside with a lead, and light the fuse before launching, the clay pot will be launched and smashed on the city wall, and it will definitely shatter, that is, the splash of fire oil will definitely cause a fire······

Xi Ji's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "That's true, the fire oil tank has a wider killing range, so my subordinates will make a few and give it a try!" ”

In the afternoon, Qin Feng ordered a rest and did not attack the city, but the defenders could see a large number of siege equipment being manufactured in the Flame Army camp standing on the city wall, which invisibly brought unprecedented pressure to the defenders.

Early the next morning, the Flame Army attacked the city again, the sergeants had not yet been dispatched, the first was a dozen catapults were pushed into the military formation, under the dismantling of the soldiers of the engineering battalion, the catapults were quickly assembled into trebuchets fixed on the ground, a trebuchet towering, the bullet bag is made of fine wire, only with wire weaving is not afraid of fire, can fire oil bombs!

At first, Qin Feng didn't know what this new wooden cart was, until he went to the engineering camp to see it, he knew that this new wooden cart was a wheelbarrow, and a strong man could indeed push three or five hundred catties of grain and grass to walk with this thing, and the speed was not slow.

The oil bomb developed by Xi Ji was not connected to the inside and outside of the oil tank with a fuse wire in the way Qin Feng said, because after testing, it was found that when the fuse was used, the burning fuse was easily extinguished when the oil bomb was flying at high speed in the air.

After improvement, Xi Ji included a layer of rags soaked in fire oil on the outside of the canister and set it on fire before launching, so that after launching, the thing was a fireball, and a long thick smoke dragged out of its tail when it flew.

Just when the defenders on the city wall didn't know what the Flame Army was going to do, the catapults in the army outside the city began to fire, and one after another ignited fire oil bombs flew into the sky and flew towards the city wall in a parabola.

The defenders were stunned, and when someone reacted, they shouted, "Run—"

The defenders fled in all directions to avoid the bombs.

"Bump, bump, bump······" One by one, the oil canisters smashed on the city wall, some smashed the inner and outer walls, some smashed on the city wall, and some flew into the city, all of them were smashed, and after the smashing, the fire oil splashed everywhere, and the sparks instantly ignited the fire oil in a large area, but all the defending sergeants who were splashed by the fire oil were burned in an instant.

"Ahh